Improvement in stove-platforms



C. BRUWNELL.

Stove-Platforms. i

N0.l48,030, Patented March 3.1874.

Wfl/lemas; v A fe/Zim? N N 'f e 51S M UNITED STATES PATENT EEIOE OLARK RROWNELL, OE TROY, NEW YORK, AssIeNOR To WALTER M. oONGER, OE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

lMPRovEMEN-r IN stove-PLATFORMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,030, dated March 3, 1874; application filed September 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern 'Be it known that I, CLARK BROWNELL, ot' the city ot' Troy, county Ot' Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Stove'SuppOrts, of which the following is a specifica-tion This invention relates to that class of stove'- supports the object Ot' which is to protect the carpet, Oil-cloth, Or floor Vfrom injury by heat radiating from the bottom Ot' a stove under which it is placed; and consists in a shield or platform composed ot' suitable metal or material, cast, stamped, or otherwise properly formed, Ot any preferable shape or form.

Around and rigidly' attached to two or more plates of suitable shape is a rim, the edge 'ot' which rests on the tloor or carpet. These plates are arranged one above the other, and at such distances from each other and the edges of the jrim that an airspace will be formed under the lower plate, and a space tilled with nonecouductive material above the upper plate, and one or more dead-air chainbers between the upper and lower plates. In the drawing only two plates and One dead-air chamber is shown.

The drawing is a vertical section.

a represents the top plate ot' the support- Or shield,rigidly attached to the rim b, ata sufficient distance from the upper edge thereof to allow of a receptacle, which is tilled with asbestus, cork, plaster, earth, or other noirconducting material marked j'.

c is another plate, attached to rim b, and arranged at a sufficient distance from the plate a and the lower edge of the rim b to allow of a dead-air chamber, e, between these two plates a and c, and an air-space o between plate c and the door, or carpet. b is the rim.

The described construction is such that but a small portion of the support will touch or rest upon the oil-cloth, carpet, or door.

It may be readily, removed for cleaning, c., and to admit air. l

Carpet or Oil cloth will not be injured by pressure, sweating, Sac., as is the case with sheets Ot' zinc, or zinc on boards, heretofore used.

The non-conducting top-coating adds to the efliciency ot' the shield.

I claim- A stove-support, vcomposed Ot rim b, plates a, c, with chamber e between, and air-spacco beneath, and provided with atop coating ot' non-conducting material or composition, for the purposes specified. Y

In testimony that lclaimthe foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of June, 1873.

Witnesses: CLARK BROWNELL.

J AMES P. SWEENEY. JOHN J. HAssETT. 

